Tacklers and Engine Tenters, Fir Tree Mill, Higham

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iBase ID

304332

Reference identifier

ENE-N16-M3-1-1

Title

Tacklers and Engine Tenters, Fir Tree Mill, Higham

Place

Higham, Nelson

Personal names

Standing from L to R 2 Joe Wensley, 3 Benjamin Hargreaves. Crouching L to R 1 Harry Hargreaves, 5 Shadrach Hargreaves, 9 Herbert Stanworth

General notes

Fir Trees Mill was a small weaving shed built in 1851 with 138 looms. Workers lived in terraced houses built for them on Laneside. By 1860 it had 200 looms. It was modernised in the 1950s, closed in 1965 and sold to Wareprod Engineering. It was eventually demolished in the 1980s and the site used for housing.

Harry Hargreaves became a professional footballer for Nelson Then Burnley

Benjamin and Shadrach Hargreaves had a brother Meshack.

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Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Year of image

circa 1900

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Subjects

Place Names > Higham

Place Names > Nelson

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